CUTE-1.7+APDII camera Earth Picture
(C) Tokyo Institute of Technology
This above picture is directly linked into 'Tokyo Institute of Technology' from here. And
it is the effort of the grand station and the result of the reports from many satelliter.
Cute-1.7 position at the time of the photography
Latitude : N 28.905 deg
Longitude: E 146.040 deg
Altitude : 620.178002 km

Re: CUTE-1.7+APDII camera Earth Picture
The grand station says as follows:
The CMOS camera like Mobile device is carried in Cute-1.7 + APD II.
A picture is acquired by controlling from PDA which is OBC.
Furthermore JPEG conversion is performed inside PDA. And the file size
is compressed, and the downlink is carried out on the ground station
using FM packet with a U-band.
When a camera turned to the direction of the earth, a photograph was
set up and taken so that a shutter might be cut. However, since this
function worked normally, it is still under examination whether it is
that the earth was reflected.
Cute-1.7 + APD II took four photographs by the present and carried out
the downlink of the thumbnail (64*48 pixels) about these all.
The photograph of the full-size picture (640*480 pixels) which the earth
is reflected finely and the downlink has completed is only what was
exhibited on my website the other day.
Earth Picture analysis by the grand station
CUTE-1.7+APDII camera Earth Picture was analyzed by the grand station as follows.
First, rotate the picture by 180degrees.
Can you see land in the left side of the picture?
Using the Google Earth and see Japan from the position of Cute-1.7
then trim the image by 60 degrees. Coastlines are identical.
To clearly compare them, look at the picture below.
In the picture, parts of coastlines are accentuated. Also, shapes of clouds looks the same.
JA1GDE/Mr.Kasei gives us the following picture which clearly shows
what was in the picture. We'd like to say thank you for Mr.Kasei.
The other Earth pictures: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/cut17ap2.htmGMSK
I decoded today, 25Jun2008, CUTE-1.7+APDII GMSK (9600bps).
Ground Station is now testing to digipeat GMSK over Japan.
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:00:35z] :GMSK Test
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:00:37z] :GMSK Test
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:00:42z] :GMSK Test
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:01:00z] :GMSK Test
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:01:05z] :GMSK Test
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:01:06z] :GMSK Test
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:01:09z] :You'reGmskReceiver!
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:01:12z] :You'reGmskReceiver!
JQ1YTC>JQ1YCZ [06/25/08 12:01:36z] :You'reGmskReceiver!
More information: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/ct17gmsk.htmSRLL protocol
SRLL protocol: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/srllprot.htm